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Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Fast
Lasts
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Night
Brim
Boils
Faster

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How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.
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Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.
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My care is for myself Myself am whole and sole reality.
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Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
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